BBs Blog

I’m glad to report that after trapping another mouse in one of the more lethal V Traps, I am no longer being plagued by messy noisy mice. There may still be some up in the attic, but as long they stay up there, and remain quiet, I am willing to live and let live. And for the time being, after dropping another smoke bomb down a hole I found, both the front and backyard appear to be mole free. I hope the yard remains mole free, but if not, I did happen to pick up some more smoke bombs when I went to Ace last week for more mouse traps. As long as the moles stay out in the mesquite patch, I’m taking the same live and let live attitude with them as well. However, moles who insist on trying to move into the yard and make unsightly mounds and holes are going to find themselves ruthlessly smoked out.

When I haven’t been screwing up the best laid plans of mice and moles, I’ve been ruthlessly trying to rid the rosemary and crown of thorns bush of the swarms of tiny little bee like insects that are hanging out in them. I’ve tried every kind of bug spray I can find. And I damn near did myself in when I thoroughly dusted both of the bushes down with a good coating of Sevin Dust, and forgot to wear my protective filter mask. What really irks the hell out of me about that incident is although I was sick as hell for a couple of days after dusting the bushes sans protective filter mask, the damn little bee like insects seem to be totally unaffected by the white coating of Sevin Dust I liberally sprinkled over both bushes.

The only thing more annoying for me right now than the moles and insects plaguing my yard are the blasted spammers who keep leaving their ads in the comment section of my blog. I am just as ruthless about clicking the “Spam” filter on my blog and ridding it of their silly ads as I am with the mice and moles in and around my house. And speaking of BB’s Blog, I finally worked up enough courage to do the recommended upgrade. I downloaded a nifty plug-in that promised to automatically upgrade my blog to the latest version. After uploading it to the proper directory and clicking on the start button I was pleasantly amazed when the automatic upgrade plug-in worked as promised. Kudos to the inventor of that handy plug-in! I am so impressed with how well the upgrade went, I may even make a donation to the site that plug in came from. I feel much better now that the blog is updated and that annoying messages telling me my blog is outdated is gone. It so sucks to be told your are outdated, especially, at my age.

And if you are reading this Week’s Fix from the blog itself, I hope you enjoy the cheerful new Tulip Time theme it is now sporting.